Western Equatoria state condemns South Sudan army crackdown
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July 1, 2015 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state government
on Wednesday issued a strong worded statement, condemning the ongoing
military activities and crackdown in Mundri West and Maridi counties
by forces of the South Sudan army (SPLA), warning that this might
spread the conflict.
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Western Equatoria’s information minister Charles Kisanga (ST/File photo)
Charles Barnaba Kisanga, minister of information and spokesperson for
Western Equatoria state government in a statement extended to Sudan
Tribune accused government forces of allegedly carrying out activities
with intention to alienate the local population in the name of hunting
“non-existent” rebellion in the region.
“Western Equatoria [state] government condemns this brutal tactics of
solving problems as one which will just alienate the population and
increase insecurity and violence at a time when we should have been
preparing to celebrate our fourth anniversary [of independence] and
reduce the spread of violence to other peaceful areas of South Sudan,”
Kisanga said.
“Why would we like to destroy the whole country before we can achieve
peace or would we really be trying to contain violence to where it
already occurred so that at least the cost of building this country is
minimal afterwards?,” he inquired.
The state official asked the national government and the military
leadership at the general headquarters to immediately withdraw
“brutalizing force” from the areas affected by the military activities
in the state.
All innocent detained youth, he said, should be freed and SPLA should
only go after rebels and their camps if at all they were in Western
Equatoria state, because “rebels have bases” and not picking innocent
youths from their homes.
He attributed the cause of the current unrest in the state to the
events that ensued in Maridi and Mundi counties as the result of the
tension between the two groups. He accused pastoralists from
neighbouring states in the area of allegedly having been allowing
their cows to go to the fields and eat up growing plantations.
He also denied that members of the state youth group threw grenade on
a cattle camp which triggered fighting last month.
“Indeed there was a grenade attack on a cattle camp at night. However
it could have been also someone from the cattle raiders as they often
fight one another to settle some previous scores,” he added.
However the cattle raiders supported by some elements from the SPLA,
on ethnic basis, took their revenge on the local population whereby
town centre areas and settlement on Maridi-Rumbek road was vandalized
and looted and up to 11 civilians killed.
In reaction to this “barbaric act”, he further pointed out, some youth
organized themselves to face off the marauding raiders who targeted
even government officials as well as trying to assassinate the
commissioner of the town, Wilson Thomas, whose house was sprayed by
bullets with intention of killing him if he did not flee his house.
He said the house of the political advisor was vandalized and looted
when the SPLA was in the neighbourhood, he explained.
Government officials said rebellion was emerging in Western Equatoria
state, prompting deployment of forces in the area.
(ST)
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2 July 06:25, by hellonearth
There we go, is that what you equatorians been waiting for. It’s
only a matter of time before they start raping you women and men too.
Wake up Equatorians, it’s time to act.
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2 July 06:25, by hellonearth
There we go, is that what you equatorians been waiting for. It’s
only a matter of time before they start raping you women and men too.
Wake up Equatorians, it’s time to act.
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